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rupert murdoch and appeared to splatter him with a white foam. several people including murdoch's wife, tried to stop the man. police were able to handcuff the suspect. murdoch was not injured. >>> greek taxi drivers are on strike for a second day. they're protesting government moves to relax rules on issuing licenses. greece is in the middle of a debt crisis and it is badly in need of tourism revenues. officials believe that more taxis would help fuel the economy. >>> a u.s. park police officer is being investigated after he twice used a taser on a pedicab operator. this happened friday afternoon outside the air and space museum. pedicabs are not allowed on the mall. the officer told four pedicabs, parked in the crosswalk, that they had to move. three of them left but one driver supposedly became confrontational. things got heated. there was a scuffle. and the officer tased the pedicabdriver. >>> it is standard procedure for the park police to investigate any incident in which force is used. >>> pepco says it needs more leeway to trim trees on p
rupert murdoch and appeared to splatter him with a white foam. several people including murdoch's wife, tried to stop the man. police were able to handcuff the suspect. murdoch was not injured. >>> greek taxi drivers are on strike for a second day. they're protesting government moves to relax rules on issuing licenses. greece is in the middle of a debt crisis and it is badly in need of tourism revenues. officials believe that more taxis would help fuel the economy. >>> a u.s....
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ambassador back to tripoli. >>> rupert murdoch is reportedly negotiating a same with the family -- a settlement -- goating a settlement with the family of a murdered british teenager targeted in the phone hacking scandal. murdoch's news international is expected to pay nearly $4 million to the family. and murdoch may give another $1 million to charity. charlie d'agata has more from london. >> reporter: rupert murdoch's media empire is about to pay the price for hacking the phone of british murder victim milli doweller. his company is expected to pay an estimated $5 million settlement. the dollar case was the tipping point in the hacking scandal at murdoch's now defunct news of the world tabloid. eavesdropping on celebrities was one thing but then reports emerged a private investigator from the paper hacked into the voice mail of the missing 13- year-old schoolgirl. messages were deleted the make room for more. that gave her family false hope she was still alive. in fact she had already been murdered. the british public was horrified and angry. rupert murdoch and his son james were su
ambassador back to tripoli. >>> rupert murdoch is reportedly negotiating a same with the family -- a settlement -- goating a settlement with the family of a murdered british teenager targeted in the phone hacking scandal. murdoch's news international is expected to pay nearly $4 million to the family. and murdoch may give another $1 million to charity. charlie d'agata has more from london. >> reporter: rupert murdoch's media empire is about to pay the price for hacking the phone...
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. >>> well, rupert murdoch's protege is the latest casualty and the phone hacking scandal. a news international ceo rebecca brooks resigned. one of the most prominent victims so far. tina caution has more. >> reporter: rupert murdoch's reef british executive -- chief british executive is calling it quits. the former "news of the world" editor was detracting attention as the media giant weathers the phone hacking scandal. british politics say it's time for -- politicians say it's time for him to apologize to the thousands of people hacked. >> i hope next tuesday he starts taking some responsibility for what happened in his organization. >> reporter: a parliamentary panel will grill rupert murdoch, his son james and rebecca brooks. brooks faced another committee back in 2003 and admitted giving bribes to cops to dig up stories. >> we have paid the police for information in the past. >> reporter: but now rupert murdoch can't seem to keep himself off the front page. murdoch will use the hearing to challenge what he calls total lies about his media empire. he told one of his own
. >>> well, rupert murdoch's protege is the latest casualty and the phone hacking scandal. a news international ceo rebecca brooks resigned. one of the most prominent victims so far. tina caution has more. >> reporter: rupert murdoch's reef british executive -- chief british executive is calling it quits. the former "news of the world" editor was detracting attention as the media giant weathers the phone hacking scandal. british politics say it's time for -- politicians...
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defeat for rupert murdoch's media empire. news corp is withdrawing its $14 billion bid for the lucrative british satellite company b sky b. the pullout combs just hours after britain's phone hacking scandal hit the houses of parliament. >> what has happened is disgraceful, got to be addressed and they should stop thinking about merges when they have to sort out the mess they've created. >> lawmakers had planned an afternoon vote to force murdoch to back away from the takeover deal. but news corp folded first, saying it was too difficult to progress in the current climate. murdoch came under attack after revelations his tabloid, the news of the world, hacked into the phones of murder and terror victims. the scandal has also embarrassed the prime minister, known for a cozy relationship with the media mogul for hiring andy colson at this communication chief. police arrested colson last week, accusing him of lying about the hacking while he was editor of the tabloid. >> the public wants us to do is address this firestorm. they wa
defeat for rupert murdoch's media empire. news corp is withdrawing its $14 billion bid for the lucrative british satellite company b sky b. the pullout combs just hours after britain's phone hacking scandal hit the houses of parliament. >> what has happened is disgraceful, got to be addressed and they should stop thinking about merges when they have to sort out the mess they've created. >> lawmakers had planned an afternoon vote to force murdoch to back away from the takeover deal....
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rupert murdoch, his son james, and murdock's former british ceo rebecca brooks will likely face punishing questions from lawmakers when they appear before parliament tuesday. brooks was arrested over the weekend and released on bail. she spent hours answering questions about what she knew about hacking while she was in charge. >> she is not guilty of any criminal offense. >> reporter: police have arrested 10 people in connection with the investigation but no one has been charged with a crime yet. tina krause, cbs news, london. >> still to come on 9news now at noonl this be the week that the stalemate over the budge set finally resolved? we'll tell you about the latest developments. >>> plus, they can see where they've been, but not where they're going. we'll tell you why these people are running backwards. >>> a vote to raise the government's borrowing power is scheduled for tomorrow in the house of representatives. the tea party proposal would let the government raise the debt limit if it approves a constitutional amendment requiring a billioned budget. danielle nottingham has more. >> r
rupert murdoch, his son james, and murdock's former british ceo rebecca brooks will likely face punishing questions from lawmakers when they appear before parliament tuesday. brooks was arrested over the weekend and released on bail. she spent hours answering questions about what she knew about hacking while she was in charge. >> she is not guilty of any criminal offense. >> reporter: police have arrested 10 people in connection with the investigation but no one has been charged...
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the company owned by rupert murdoch tries to continue to recover after the phone hacking scandal. here in the united states, news corp is facing at least two shareholder lawsuits. a possible standard enforced credit downgrade and a federal investigation. >>> still to come when 9news now continues, if you think you're having a rough time because of the heat, imagine wearing a civil war costume on the battlefield. >>> i'm at the kennedy space center. it's a great day here as the shuttle at lynn tis safely lanz -- -- atlantis safely lands. that story coming up. >>> this morning in florida, the final space shuttle returns safely to earth. the landing marks the end of an era in our man's space flight. thousands of nasa employees, many are losing their jobs. and so it was a very emotional day. we have more. >> piercing the pre dawn skies. >> reporter: two earth shaking sonic booms. a smooth touchdown in predawn darkness. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: and retirement for the shuttle fleet and its 30 years of american man space flight. >> we copy we'll stop and we'll take this oppor
the company owned by rupert murdoch tries to continue to recover after the phone hacking scandal. here in the united states, news corp is facing at least two shareholder lawsuits. a possible standard enforced credit downgrade and a federal investigation. >>> still to come when 9news now continues, if you think you're having a rough time because of the heat, imagine wearing a civil war costume on the battlefield. >>> i'm at the kennedy space center. it's a great day here as the...
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. >>> rupert murdoch's news corp. shares fell 5% when news came of the company's buyout was being delayed. the media company continues to deal with fallout stemming from the hacking scandal that shut down its tabloid "news of the world." >>> regulators will take six months to decide whether to sign off on the buyout as the probe into phone hacking continues. >>> julian assange is back in a british courtroom. appealing his extradition to sweden. i've seen the krause report, the wikileaks founder insists that the sex allegations against him are politically motivated. >> reporter: wikileaks founder julian assange made his way through a crush of media to fight his latest legal battle at britain's high court. assange's lawyers are trying to block his extradition to sweden where he's wanted on sexual assault allegations. they say sweden's case against assange is flawed. the australian computer whiz is accused of sexually assaulting two wikileaks volunteers on a trip to stockholm last summer. but assange's lawyers insist the
. >>> rupert murdoch's news corp. shares fell 5% when news came of the company's buyout was being delayed. the media company continues to deal with fallout stemming from the hacking scandal that shut down its tabloid "news of the world." >>> regulators will take six months to decide whether to sign off on the buyout as the probe into phone hacking continues. >>> julian assange is back in a british courtroom. appealing his extradition to sweden. i've seen the...
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. >>> media mogul rupert murdoch flew back to the united states today after facing intense questioning from british lawmakers over the phone hacking scandal. today, the prime minister called an emergency session of parliament to tackle that controversy engulfing britain. charlie d'agata tells us that he emphatically denies claims that he tried to stop an investigation. >> reporter: the phone hacking scandal has dragged british prime minister david cameron into the fray and into a fight in the house of commons. >> the greatest responsibility i have is to clear up this mess. >> reporter: he's in the mess! his former communications chief andy colson was editor of the news of the world when journalists hacked in the voice mails of murder victims and politicians. now, he's under arrest. >> with 20/20 hindsight and all that has followed, i would not have offered him the job and i expect that he wouldn't have taken it. >> it is not about hindsight, mr. speaker. it is not about whether mr. colson lied to him. it is about the information and warnings that the prime minister ignored. >> reporter
. >>> media mogul rupert murdoch flew back to the united states today after facing intense questioning from british lawmakers over the phone hacking scandal. today, the prime minister called an emergency session of parliament to tackle that controversy engulfing britain. charlie d'agata tells us that he emphatically denies claims that he tried to stop an investigation. >> reporter: the phone hacking scandal has dragged british prime minister david cameron into the fray and into a...
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investigators are looking into whether journalists at rupert murdoch's news of the world listen into desperate conversations families had with police after the 2005 london attacks. the tabloid also allegedly tapped into the account of missing 13-year-old millie dollar, not only listening to her voice mail but deleting messages from frantic relatives. the activity on the phone gave her family hope she was still alive. she was found dead six months after she disappeared in 2002. >> this is disgusting, disgraceful. there aren't words to describe how awful this was, how awful it is. >> the new hacking allegations are infuriating the british public, prompting an emergency government session and calls for an immediate investigation. >> we're talking about murder victims, potentially terrorist victims having their phones hacked into. it is absolutely disgusting. >> when the scandal first broke, the targets were mainly celebrities like mick jagger, gwyneth paltrow and hugh grant. >> at the center of the controversy is rebecca brooks who headed up the tabloid newspaper for years. she's now in
investigators are looking into whether journalists at rupert murdoch's news of the world listen into desperate conversations families had with police after the 2005 london attacks. the tabloid also allegedly tapped into the account of missing 13-year-old millie dollar, not only listening to her voice mail but deleting messages from frantic relatives. the activity on the phone gave her family hope she was still alive. she was found dead six months after she disappeared in 2002. >> this is...